Re: Importing aiomixer to src

[Travis Paul <tr%vispaul.me@localhost>]

On 5/6/21 9:44 AM, nia wrote:
> For those unfamiliar, aiomixer is my name for my graphical
> (curses-based) frontend to NetBSD mixer devices.
>
> It has similar functionality to mixerctl, but is designed to be more
> user-friendly for interactive use. For example, hold the arrow keys,
> the system's volume changes, you get instant visual feedback.
> Like a real hardware mixer! Except ASCII and without twisty knobs.
>
> Recently I rewrote it to (a) fix the handling of SET mixer controls
> (b) remove the CDK/ncurses dependencies (the only dependency is
> now NetBSD libcurses). The binary is 13K stripped and compiles with
> WARNS=6.
>
> I think this version is suitable for importing into NetBSD base
> for continued development. This will also allow us to easily
> keep it in sync if there are any changes to the audio stack.
>
> Review and comments welcome, of course.
>
> https://github.com/niacat/aiomixer2

For what its worth, I'd like to commend this effort.
I install aiomixer on any NetBSD machine where I intend to have audio,
it's a great little utility and I appreciate your work on it.

Happy to hear the CDK/ncurses dependency has been removed too!

- Travis